Umpires Quotes

A good umpire is the umpire you don't even notice

— Ban Johnson

We do not judge great art. It judges us.

— Caroline Gordon

National League umpires wear inside chest protesters.

— Jerry Coleman

Umpires are necessary evils.

— Doug Harvey

Stay in school kids or you'll end up being an umpire.

— Andy Roddick

Umpires sometimes have a quick trigger.

— Joe Torre

Why do you judge me as a musician, John? All I'm interested in is making money.

— Glenn Miller

The way we have been playing, I might tell my players not to cross the picket line (umpire strike of 1979).

— Whitey Herzog

I get what I desire, it's my empire And yes I call the shots, I am the umpire

— Nicki Minaj

What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“I would like to be an umpire when Sachin is batting, so to get the best possible view of his shots.”

— Amit Kalantri

I am deeply saddened and shocked at the loss of umpire Wally Bell.

— Joe Torre

Bishops are like umpires. You have to have them to call the close decisions.

— Frank Butler

Having reached the halfway mark in the alphabet, my prime focus is on writing each new book as well as I can.

— Sue Grafton

I have reached the point where I know that as long as I sit down to write, the ideas will come. What…

— Robert B. Parker

When politicians complain about the media, it strikes me as resembling footballers complaining about the umpire.

— Tony Abbott

I can guarantee you this, that more pension and benefit reforms which I will consider arbitration reform to be one of them,…

— Chris Christie

I'd always have grease in at least two places, in case the umpires would ask me to wipe one off. I never…

— Gaylord Perry

The best recommendation for an umpire in the old days was: "He licked somebody in the Three-I League. He ought to do.

— Ty Cobb

The liberal groups spent months raising money so they could take down anyone President Bush nominated. But they have not been able…

— Michael Oxley

Guilt says I've done something wrong; ... shame says there is something wrong with me. Guilt says I've made a mistake; ...…

— John Bradshaw

Whenever you have a tight situation and there's a close pitch, the umpire gets a squawk no matter how he calls it.

— Red Barber

We never went into a game that we did not feel sure of winning, and when we lost, we blamed it on…

— Joe Kelley

I don't think you can set up a computer to do a strike zone on a guy who's 6-foot-5 and then a…

— Johnny Bench

I recoil with horror at the ferociousness of man. Will nations never devise a more rational umpire of differences than force? Are…

— Thomas Jefferson

Umpires, like players, are expected to show constant improvement each season and at each level. Inconsistent plate work and the inability to…

— Jim Evans

I'd love to stay in baseball, but I won't beg. I'd love to work with young umpires. I think I could teach…

— Doug Harvey

If custom is to avail for proof of soundness, we too, surely, may advance our prevailing custom; and if they reject this,…

— Gregory of Nyssa

We are to remember what an umpire Nature is; what a greatness, composure of depth and tolerance there is in her. You…

— Thomas Carlyle

America overflows with specious "victims" demanding redress for spurious grievances. However, one genuinely oppressed minority is getting overdue relief. Beginning with spring…

— George Will

But, you may ask, if the two departments [i.e., federal and state] should claim each the same subject of power, where is…

— Thomas Jefferson

This bill would renounce the safe, proper, and acceptable role for Government as a referee of disputes between the governed. It would…

— Strom Thurmond

In sum, do not insult me with the beheadings, finger choppings or the lung-deflations you plan for my works. I need my…

— Ray Bradbury

It was only literally hours after the wedding when he felt he didn't have to keep up the facade.

— Trisha Goddard

In case of dispute, the umpire shall throw it straight into the field.

— James Naismith

The first guy who lays a finger on this blind old man is fined fifty bucks!

— Gene Mauch

“Century was an occasional thing in cricket, Sachin made it frequent.”

— Amit Kalantri

I told the umpires to walk back at least thirty-five feet from home plate. That reduced the arguements.

— Bill Klem

Earl gave me his version of what happened and asked me not to suspend the umpires.

— Lee MacPhail

I try to swim every damn day I can, and I've learned to scuba dive and snorkel.

— Nina Simone